Well, I'm sold.
Except…
The ONLY reason I see to have a profiler is to use its "cast in stone" profiles without turning a knob ever, which matches the quoted use.
However, that's unrealistic for the majority of people playing that I know. If it was a profile of my own amps with real tubes, that use would almost make sense, except that, depending on the guitar and the night and the room, I will turn knobs to fine-tune the sound because my guitars vary from Strats to Humbucker and Narrowfield and single-coil solid body and semi-hollow PRS, all of which react differently to the amp and speaker position and the room. Once the Kemper starts trying to interpolate new knob positions it's in alien territory, because estimating the effect of the knob change is not nearly as accurate as calculating using algorithms based on the schematic and circuitry which is exactly where the Fractal design lives, being able to bend and flex according to the parameter changes. And, most importantly, it continues to be improved and fine-tuned with each firmware update.
IF Kemper's profiles incorporated every knob position and combination of those in a profile, then they'd probably have ended the competition, but they don't, and the likelihood of them doing that is extremely small because the adjustments would have to be automated for accuracy, and profiles would be huge and profile changes would take significantly longer as the CPU tried to align itself with the new knob positions after an adjustment.
Yes, on the Fractals, if you're trying to put together a model of an amp that isn't currently modeled, such as the Tone King Imperial, it can be a challenge to replicate the circuitry, and a Kemper would make a quick and easy job of it, as long as I didn't need to turn knobs later. But, we already know that in reality the knobs will get twiddled.
